SPE-GCS

"The Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Gulf Coast Section enhances technical knowledge among our members through local events, promotes camaraderie and networking in our industry, educates and serves the community, and provides scholarships to students entering the oil and gas industry."

Young Professionals Board MeetingDay: Thursday 5-Apr-12 6:00 PM to 7:00 PMLocation: Hess Corporation 1501 McKinney Street Houston, Texas 77010 Summary: Interested in finding out more about the SPE Young Professionals Committee or joining the board next year? If so, we invite you to attend our monthly board meetings! RegisterMapquest | Add to Calendar

Petro-Tech: Do You Really Know Where Your Well Is?Speaker: James M. Stolle, Bus. Devel. Mgr. - Directional Survey Data, TGS Geological ProductsDay: Tuesday 10-Apr-12 11:30 AM to 12:30 PMLocation: Brookhollow Sheraton 3000 North Loop West Houston, Texas 77092 Summary: Do you really know where your well and/or competitor's wells are located in the subsurface? Directional survey data is the critical well control information that provides control on the spatial positioning of drilled wells and their 2D/3D wellpaths.RegisterMapquest | Add to Calendar

Northside: The Austin Chalk vs. Eagle Ford Shale PlaySpeaker: Jason Baihly, Multistage Stimulation Product Line Manager, SchlumbergerDay: Tuesday 10-Apr-12 11:30 AM to 1:00 PMLocation: Greenspoint Club 16925 Northchase Houston, Texas 77060 Summary: This talk discusses the possibility that the Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford Shale form a single hydrocarbon system. The potential source, generation, migration, storage, and production mechanisms of both formations will be analyzed from a geologic perspective.RegisterMapquest | Add to Calendar

PF&C: Subsea Produced Water Treatment Measurement ChallengesSpeaker: Timothy P. Daigle, Sr. Project Engineer, Fluor Offshore SolutionsDay: Tuesday 17-Apr-12 11:30 AM to 1:00 PMLocation: Norris Center City Center 803 Town and Country Ln., Suite 210 Houston, Texas 77042 TexasSummary: Today's Petroleum Industry is being confronted with having to manage production with increasing amounts of produced water from production wells. Many engineers throughout the industry believe that good produced water management is the single most important aspect to extending the life of a producing reservoir.RegisterAdd to Calendar

Permian Basin: Production Forecasting in Low Permeability Oil ReservoirsSpeaker: W. John Lee, Professor and Cullen Distinguished University Chair, University of Houston, Petroleum Engineering Dept.Day: Tuesday 17-Apr-12 11:30 AM to 1:00 PMLocation: Westlake Club 570 Westlake Park Blvd Houston, Texas 77079 Summary: Forecasting production and estimating reserves with confidence in unconventional resources, particularly shale reservoirs, is a major unsolved problem in the petroleum industry. Many would prefer a rigorous analytical or numerical model to be used as the basis for production forecasting and reserves estimation.RegisterMapquest | Add to Calendar

Reservoir: Field Development Optimization with Subsurface UncertaintiesSpeaker: Michael Litvak, Reservoir Engineering Advisor, BPDay: Thursday 26-Apr-12 11:30 AM to 1:00 PMLocation: Courtyard on St James 1885 Saint James Pl Houston, Texas 77056 Summary: We present a general technology for simultaneous optimization of a broad range of field development decisions with subsurface uncertainties. We optimize discrete and continuous decision variables such as the number of production or injection wells.

Children's Museum of Houston 2012 Young Inventors ShowcaseDay: Saturday 19-May-12 8:30 AM to 3:00 PMLocation: Children's Museum of Houston 1500 Binz Houston, TX 77004 Summary: Annual Young Inventors' Showcase at the Children's Museum of Houston The Young Inventors' Showcase of Houston encourages the budding inventor in every child by providing a platform for children to share and celebrate their invention ideas.Mapquest | Add to Calendar

May 1919 The oilfields of North and West Texas will soon have YMCA accommodations similar to those in the army cantonments, according to the State Secretary of the YMCA. The plan calls for huts to be set up in the oilfields for the convenience and recreation of workers employed in those areas. $$ One of the hottest-selling business machines in oilfield offices is the mimeograph duplicator. (Boomers remember.)... [More Info]